Breathless (May 2018)

You stopped my heart

I am here breathless

Waiting

Within the space of wanting

Which desires to move forward

Risking everything to connect

To a heart that is open

In ways I have never known before

You ask if this is a dream

And I wonder too

For life now can sometimes be so unreal

When we communicate

No longer

Body to body

And eye to eye

And so it is left for me to believe

In the word pictures you paint

As in my heart I feel the racing

Of a thousand hoofbeats

Of the wild prairie horses

Oh how my heart longs

And how breathless

I become

With the breath for my father and brother’s love

That was absent

With the longing for strong arms to hold me

Just for a little while

Because sometimes

Having always to be the strong one

Is so lonely

And leaves me

Breathless